Senior Manager Financial Planning Analysis

The Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager plays a crucial role in driving financial strategy, overseeing actuals performance, budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning for the Del Monte MANN Division. This position is responsible for conducting comprehensive financial variance analysis against standard costs and budget to ensure operational efficiency and accuracy in reporting. It supports KPI/Operational reporting by delivering precise and timely financial insights to the Vice President of Operations, running deep cost analysis to provide proactively and timely any risk or deviation from Standard Cost / Forecast and Budget. The primary objective is to enhance visibility into financial performance and ensure timely reporting, enabling management to make strategic, data-driven decisions confidently.

Responsibilities

- Support monthly financial closings by ensuring accuracy in reporting and reconciliation.
- Prepare weekly and monthly P&L analysis by Product group, Production Line and individual products SKUs
- Lead production cost-based accounting analysis, reviewing on constant basis accuracy of Standard Cost / BOM by analyzing and explaining timely any deviation with objective to optimize cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with department leaders to prepare and refine seasonal standard costing for all cost components across categories and individual products.
- Oversee KPI/Operational reporting, ensuring accurate and timely financial insights for management and department leads can focus their performance discussions, address needed adjustments, and impact future results to maximize the bottom line.
- Efficiently compile monthly reports including actual results and forecast to analyze the performance and track variance analysis identifying key drivers and opportunities to improve
- Develop and prepare weekly business performance summaries in coordination with Operations and Sales teams to assess financial achievement and upcoming trends
- Researches issues as identified, reports findings, suggest alternative courses of action, and constantly look for process improvements.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning to ensure alignment with business objectives
- Coordinates with other areas of Finance to ensure projected financial outcomes resulting from business plans are properly planned and forecasted.
- Partner with Business Process & System Improvement to integrate tools and technologies to produce reports and analysis.
- Partners with senior management, (VP of Operations and VP of Sales) and the business functional areas to provide financial insights, recommendations on performance to help the company make effective resource allocation decisions
- Special Projects as assigned.

Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field (e.g. Finance, etc.), from an accredited institution.
- At least 5 years of prior experience in a similar role.
- Working knowledge of ERPs (SAP preferred) and BI tools.
- Proficient in cost-based accounting principles/GAAP
- Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Excel, Power Pivot, Access, Word, and Outlook, Power Query & Power Automate).
- Demonstrated leadership presence and maturity.
- Excellent communication (i.e. oral and written) and leadership skills.
- Ability to multi-task and be detail oriented.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred:

- Working knowledge of produce industry, supply and food chain management and/or agricultural background
- Proficient in cost-based accounting principles (CCA certified)